Obama: Don't snatch defeat from victory (Pool Report from Last Night's Show w/ "Billy and the Boss"

[jefferson_dem]

Obama: Don't snatch defeat from victory
October 17, 2008 9:05 AM
The Swamp

by Frank James

Our friend, New York Times man, Jeff Zeleny, was in the small group of journalists on pool-duty last night who were following Sen. Barack Obama around and watching, taking notes and capturing photos and video on behalf of the larger journalistic herd excluded from the events. Here's what he reported.

Pool Report - No. 4
Oct. 16, 2008
New York City

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Except for that monetary detail, it would have been easy to forget that this was an Obama event at all. Until, of course, The Boss took his microphone and, surrounded by the other singers said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, you want to bring on the next president of the United States, Barack Obama!"

"The point is, all across this country," Mr. Obama said, "the people that Billy and Bruce sing about, every day they get up and they are working hard."

He spoke for 25 minutes. It was a streamlined version of his stump speech, particularly highlighting the challenges of the economy.

"This is the moment when we are being tested. This is the time when we are going to have to look back 10 years from now, 20 years from now and say, did we lose our nerve? Did we lose our sense of purpose? Or did we rise up and come together?"

Mr. Obama urged his supporters to buckle down and do more than send money.

"Don't underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," Mr. Obama said. "Don't underestimate our ability to screw it up."

He added, "I want everybody running scared. Over the next 18 days, other than your family and your job, I want you to make a decision that there is nothing more important than bringing about this change that we need."

He closed with a classic tune of his own: "Fired up, Ready to Go!"

Yes, that's right, cue the B-Roll for Edith Childs, Greenwood, S.C.

The band returned for an encore, "Signed Sealed Delivered," which drew Michelle Obama out onto the stage to join her husband in a little dance, a little hip bumping and a lot of clapping to the beat.

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[gblady]

1. sounds like it was very cool....

I would love to have been there to see the Obama's dance!